Bill Maher threatens to quit show over Donald Trump

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Bill Maher says he may quit his weekly TV talk show over Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

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The comedian, who hosts Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, said he won’t be able to handle Trump for another four years.

“I’m s—ing my pants. I may quit,” Maher told his Club Random podcast guest Jane Fonda on Sunday. “Because I don’t want to do another [Trump term]. I did all the Trump stuff before anybody.

“I called him a con man before anybody, I did, ‘he’s a mafia boss.’ I was the one who said he wasn’t going to concede the election. I’ve done it.”

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Maher added he was getting bored talking about Trump.

The actress and environmental activist told him to avoid Trump and talk about other topics, but Maher replied that the show is about politics and continued to gripe about the incoming U.S. president.

“He’s going to dominate the news like he always does,” he added.

They then debated about the far left in American society. Fonda asked him to give her one example.

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“Last year, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) issued a travel advisory for Black people not to go [to] Florida,” Maher said.

“Every day, there’s stories like that where that just makes people roll their eyes and go, ‘Are you people nuts?’ Even if they don’t matter that much, I don’t think one person listened to this and thought, ‘I can’t go to Florida?’”

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They also debated about transgender people getting pregnant and climate change, before Fonda concluded that they have nothing in common.

“You’re so different than me that it’s hard for me sometimes to even understand what you’re talking about,” Fonda said.

She added that his worldview is totally different and that he is a cynic.

“I’m not cynical, and I’ve been around longer than you, a good 20 years more,” she said. “You could be my son. I’d put you over my knees and spank you.”

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